Best settings for Sharp Aquos 32" LCD

What is the native resolution of the Sharp Display? For optimal quality you should set your mac to output at the Native resolution of the Sharp LCD (this is true of any LCD). See System Preferences> Display Preferences to change screen resolution. Also make sure your sharp's built in screen settings (not the ones you adjust from the Macs display preferences) are set properly. For example, through the remote you can choose settings for "PC", "Movie", "TV", etc. I usually find that the Sharps "PC" default settings are very bad... too much contrast, bad color reproduction. so I have to manually tweak them (also done through the remote). Best of luck. I am confident you can get an excellent image out of your Sharp.

Regarding creating multiple user accounts, I highly recommend you start a separate post on that topic since it is so unrelated to your sharp lcd issue. I am confident you will get lots of responses to a post about that. Try to provide as much detail as you can about what you want, and why you think you need multiple user accounts (for example, "I want to share music, but I don't want my kids mucking about with my files" )... and you might want to consider posting that thread in the OS X topic area (here: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=752)

But for the record, I really try to avoid setting up multiple user accounts if possible because it is a pain to share iTunes music and movies (though its possible). I think the only reason to set up multiple users is when you have kids and you want to prevent them from messing up your own settings and files. If it is two adults sharing the same computer, I think it is best to just compromise on how you configure the doc, and to agree to save files in different folders inside documents. work arounds for email can also be done from one acount. best of luck

Are you shure about that resolution?

I have a Sharp Aquos, and its native resolution is 1366x768 (Though sharp has lots of models so you might be right)

My MacBook is conected to my Aquos right now. From the MacBook the screen is set to 1280x768, and from the Aquos it is set to accept a 1280x768 signal as well (Menu->Setup->Input Signal) and it looks great.

With this setup you do get black bars on each side of the picture (the remaining 86 pixels of the 1366 resolution)

With my old Mac Mini I used a tool called SwitchRes X to define a screen resolution of 1360x768 (I never managed 1366). It will probably work for the MacBook too but might frankly be too much hassle for those 86 pixels.

MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi Guttorm -
I have the same issue, too, but I'm certainly willing to fight for those extra 86 pixels. Could you post your SwitchResX settings that you got to work for 1360x768? I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to configure my Sharp Aquos 26" LCD.

Thanks a lot!
Scott

This is how my 1360x768 resolution is defined in SwitchResX:

Pixel clock 85,500 MHz

Values for Horizontal / Vertical:

Active 1360 / 768
Front Porch 64 / 3
Sync Width 112 / 6
Back Porch 256 / 18

Scan Rate 47,712 / 60,015
Scale to 0 / 0
Positive sync. ticked / ticked

Its been a long time since I fiddled with this, so I can't remember if there was any addittional magic involved. The only thing extra I can remember is that my Sharp Aquos auto-detected this as 1024x768, so I had to manually tell it that the resolution was 1366x768

Good luck!

MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Thank you very much for taking the time to post your settings. Unfortunately, they didn't work for my 26" Aquos. I think that your pixel clock and horizontal scan rates are outside of the range of my TV. It is strange though - I would have thought that the settings wouls work across different Aquos LCD panels.

Thanks again.
Scott

I'm trying to figure this out for my 26in aquos as well connected to a G4/400 with a 128mb ati 9800. I can't get consistent results. Plus the interlace goes out of whack as well. Anyone else have any ideas?